I finally paid for one-night participation on SibAstro (17-18 of September).
Perhaps, I would spend there full two nights, but I have to go Barnaul (capital of nearby region) for 5 days soon after SibAstro.
Going to Sibastro
September 11th, 2010 by Ivan BoldyrevObservationManager 1.020 in gentoo-astronomy overlay
September 10th, 2010 by Ivan BoldyrevI have managed to create ebuild for Observation Manager 1.020 recently released. Old versions were not working with system install (AFAIR, they attempted to write to /usr/share/), but 1.020 seems to work.
It was a difficult task, as package has two source packages with individual Ant project for modules in each package.
If you are Gentoo-using amateur astronomer, fill free to check my Gentoo Astronomy overlay!
WMS Shoutout Results
September 9th, 2010 by Ivan Boldyrevhttp://slashgeo.org/2010/09/08/Words-FOSS4G-2010-and-Famous-WMS-Shoutout-Winner
MapServer is either first or second in all nominations, but I prefer Geoserver anyway 🙂
Sibastro 2010
July 31st, 2010 by Ivan BoldyrevSibastro 2010 will be on September 17-19 at same place.
http://www.sibastro.ru
Free Lunar Field Atlas 2.0 by Fred Dase
July 29th, 2010 by Ivan BoldyrevNew version of photographic lunar atlas:
http://www.astronomylogs.com/pages/moon.html
punkastronomy.com on free star atlases
June 25th, 2010 by ibadmhttp://punkastronomy.com/2010/06/23/open-source-star-atlases/
These atlases are not open source in strict sense (you cannot modify them), but they are free.
Maps of Solar Eclipses
April 13th, 2010 by Ivan BoldyrevGentoo Linux Astronomy overlay
March 11th, 2010 by Ivan BoldyrevI have started an Astronomy overlay for Gentoo Linux (i.e. repository for astronomical software that can be installed on Gentoo Linux).
The following packages are currently packaged:
- SkyChart (aka Cartes du Ciel)
- VirtualMoon
- JSatTrak
- IridiumFlares
Note that JSatTrak depends on some packages from java-overlay.
New variant of starchartjs
February 11th, 2010 by Ivan BoldyrevI have created another variant of starchartjs that uses HTML5 Canvas element with normal browsers and excanvas (VML emulation of Canvas) with Internet Explorer: http://ivan.ivanych.net/dev/starmap-canvas/.
New version uses Rey’s constellation figures with more stars and lines (it was driving force for Canvas migration, as Canvas is faster).
It also draws planets (I could add it to old SVG/VML version too).
Please, test with various browsers and platforms.
P.S. Here are competitors: http://www.staratlas.com/!!!
Updated at Jan 2012: StarchartJS is now open-source, you may see better demo at http://www.skyandme.com/dev/starchartjs/.
starchartjs: new astonomical web toy
February 4th, 2010 by Ivan BoldyrevThis page displays real-time star chart for my location (it could for any other). The chart is updated each 2 minutes.
http://ivan.ivanych.net/dev/starmap/
The map is created with RaphaelJs library, constellation figures are stolen from Stellarium.
I plan to use it as a component for my future projects.
